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Emily Hanna Mayock

Emily Hanna Mayock

Contributing Editor

Emily Hanna Mayock is a contributing editor for Nightclub & Bar Media Group. She is the former managing editor of Nightclub & Bar magazine and previously was in the hospitality industry, working as an associate editor for hotel trade publications. She is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.

Stories by Emily Hanna Mayock

DineEquity Inc. has agreed to sell 65 Applebeea s restaurants in Michigan, which will complete the companya s five-year strategy of turning the casual-dining chain into an almost fully franchised brand.

Restaurant operators saw continued gains in same-store sales during May, although shaky confidence could be putting a drain on customer traffic. The future outlook is positive as well. The associationa s Restaurant Performance Index stood at 101.4 during May, down only 0.2% from Aprila s level of 101.6.

Red Lobster scored the highest customer satisfaction rating among full-service restaurant brands, according to the 2012 American Customer Satisfaction Index. Consumer Reports awarded nine chains with especially high marks in its annual sit-down restaurant survey, the results of which will be published in the magazinea s August issue.

U.S. restaurant goers increased their number of visits to foodservice outlets by 1% during the first three months of 2012, marking the strongest traffic gain since spring 2008, according to the NPD Group. The Port Washington, N.Y.-based market research firm also found that consumers increased spending at restaurants by 3% during the same period, with more than half of that gain coming from an uptick in industry wide average check rates.